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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Audiobook1 hour

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Written by Lewis Carroll and Jennifer Bassett

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Release dateDec 13, 2007
    ISBN9780194210430
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    Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted and entranced children for over a hundred years. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford where he became a mathematics lecturer. The Alice stories were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his college

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    • 3/5
      Classic story, and one I decided to revisit as an adult. Some of the leaps in logic are just hilariously absurd. The characters are fantastic, and super memorable. I absolutely loved everything related to the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar.

      For as short as the book is, there did seem to be some filler at times. The whole bit with the Mockturtle annoyed me, and I didn't care for a lot of the poems and stories.

      I listened to this one as an audiobook, and I think it may have diminished some of my enjoyment of it. Sometimes the words are laid out on page in a certain, clever way which was lost on this format. I also believe my comprehension is quite a bit lower when listening. I plan on returning to this in book format and I may update my rating.
    • 2/5
      I've done a cursory glance at the criticism of Alice - and it seems that there are layers of symbolism here, a bit of a literary puzzle to dissect. It's at turns clever, caustic, and surreal. None of this means it's any good. Perhaps I'm having the same trouble with this as with Harry Potter - Alice is clearly written for young people, and making sense or having a narrative structure are not high priorities for Carroll.

      Is this experimental fiction? It's full of non sequiturs verging on stream of consciousness. I think it possibly captures the mental states of both the adult on hallucinogens and the seven year old child. There's some heavy-handed symbolism related to coming-of-age. Carroll is a bit obsessed with the bodies of young girls. But it's quite possible that whatever drugs Carroll was taking helped him capture the surrealism and randomness of a child's consciousness.
    • 4/5
      2023 reread:

      It's been years since I last read this book - I had forgotten how short it is! While my memory of Alice's adventures was clear, I had forgotten her sister entirely.
    • 4/5
      Together with Through the Looking Glass, I've read Lewis Carroll many times. The early illustrations, by Tenniel, are often ugly, but still give a better feel to the story than the Disney film. The Jabberwocky remains a favorite poem, demonstrating the difference between the feel of a poem and its sense. There are many levels in this book.
    • 5/5
      An abridged but marvelous re-telling of this story. It shows a smart girl in a green pinafore with an apron who strives to make sense of an uncertain world. She is courageous and undaunted. And the illustrations are soft and sweet, a contrast to the satire and confusing themes in the original.
    • 4/5
      Good as always!
    • 3/5
      It was fun and bizarre and I'm happy I read it.
    • 5/5
      This one inexplicably remains a favorite. Bizarre (literally). And somehow timeless.
    • 5/5
      I have nothing new or profound to say about Alice's adventures. But the Charles van Sandwyk illustrations in the Folio Society edition are brilliant. He has not so much re-imagined the characters we know so well from the vintage Tenniel illustrations, as simply re-drawn them in his own style, which I love.
    • 1/5
      I will never understand who determines a classic! This story is nothing but garbage. A dream. Maybe if I was younger, say 10, then this story might have been funny or interesting.
    • 5/5
      Ok, I have numerous versions of Alice in Wonderland but this version has a sumptuous collection of classical illustrations along with the text. I couldn't resist it. Apart from some of my favourite illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Charles Robinson the editor/author (Cooper Edens) has collected illustrations from Willy Pogany, Gertrude Kay, Millicent Sowerby, Margaret Tarrant, Maria Kirk...and, of course the original illustrator John Tenniel. There are quite a few other illustrators as well. I guess one would describe them as coming from the "golden years of children's illustrators" . It's a large A4 size publication ....in colour where the originals were in colour and rather well reproduced. Hard not to love it. I give it five stars. (Not because I love the story of Alice but more because I like the illustrations).
    • 4/5
      Alice spies a white rabbit with a watch in its waistcoat pocket and curious at such an oddity, follows it down its rabbit's hole into a land full of wondrous and strange things. The classic story is told here by the wonderfully versatile Jim Dale, who seems to have no end of unique and interesting voices in his repertoire. What the tale loses in lack of Tenniel's illustrations, it makes up for with auditory cues. Children who love talking animals and absurd fantasy are sure to delight in this book -- and this audio version of it will appeal to those who love having stories read aloud to them.
    • 2/5
      Audiobook. Children's/adult. All of the nonsense made this one one a lot more challenging to listen to, but for trained listeners, would make a great read aloud.
    • 3/5
      What a strange little story this is. I am happy I read it in this beautiful rendition of Collector's Editions, which included the original title (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and the beautiful, original illustrations by John Tenniel.

      It being a great example of nonsensical literature actually doesn't help my appreciation of it, I'm afraid. Even though one can venture off and find many upon many interpretations of various scenes and characters in the story, I found that my attention was never completely captured, as there was no real storyline to begin with. Quite the contrary actually, as everything that Alice tries, fails, everybody she encounters works against her, and there is no clear goal to pursue.

      Still, the prose is beautiful, the poems are great and I understand how many of the scenes have become part of our collective culture over the last century.

      Perhaps it's a must-read, since it's a seminal work by a brilliant author, but it didn't resonate so much with me as I'd hoped.
    • 3/5
      In 2015 The Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels published in English, listed in chronological order of publication. Under Covid inspired lockdown, I have taken up the challenge.Familiar to every child of my generation, this was the first time as an adult that have I read Alice. A lot of fun, and like the best kids movies, there is is something here for the adults as well as the kids - for example the joke based on Latin conjugations.
    • 3/5
      I wish I read this one when I was little, I'm sure I would loooooove it. As an adult, I can appreciate the story and what it means for literature but it wasn't very enjoyable.

      I would reread it eventually so I can take note of every metaphor and all that. Also, it gave me ideas for a new novel (maybe a retelling? Who knows).

      Basically, I'm glad I read it, I wish I did when I was 8-9.
    • 5/5
      Here is a story I have always heard about, but never got to read or even see one of its film adaptations. I placed it under the banner of 'ILS 516 Modern Fantasy' because just as Young et al. (2020) stipulate, any work of modern fantasy has its author known (p. 148). Since this was around the time I had begun to exhaust the stack of books I checked out before my library closed, I decided to take a chance on the audiobook version for us LION cardholders. I did just that and felt that as good as Scarlett Johansson is at reading this book, it is really disappointing there are no sound effects. See, my personal measuring stick of an audiobook is Stephen King’s The Mist. My dad used to have it on cassette being told with so-called ‘3D Sound.’ This basically meant that the text had sound effects accompany it. So, if a part of the story took place during a rainstorm, you actually hear the rain in the background of the conversations. This made the book literally come to life in a way that could not be achieved from just reading it. I was hoping that because this was a fantasy story, there would be sound effects added too. For example, one perfect usage would have been when Alice falls into the pool of her own tears at the beginning; there could have been the sound of her falling into water. Yet, not a single sound effect is used. Ultimately, even though I really liked the story itself, I am disappointed it did not take advantage of the audiobook format more.
    • 1/5
      The best thing I can say for this book is it is short.

      I had a friend who loved Lewis Carroll, I had some time and it was cheap and I figured I'd give it a try. Honestly not sure why I finished. I remember thinking "WTF? I don't know if I can stand to finish this", checking the progress bar and seeing I was already a third of the way through. And just figuring if it was that short might as well.

      It never was so bad I wanted to throw it through a wall, but the most enjoyment I got out of it was recognizing scenes from the animated Disney movie. Kudos to Disney for managing to make an engaging film out of this word vomit.
    • 5/5
      Oozing charm
    • 4/5
      This is a fun book. Not that race makes a difference but I do like that Alice in this book is of "color". Alice in Wonderland is a classic and favorite story of mine. I was on the journey from the beginning to the end with Alice. Young readers will have an enjoyable time looking at the pictures as well as reading this book. Parents will want to check out all of the books in this line by Penguin.
    • 4/5
      Delightfully fun, whimsically amusing and what an imagination! Between the outlandish characters, the silly puns and the play with logic, it is easy to see how this book is such a great story for both children and adults. Obviously, a reader needs to love - or at least appreciate - the nonsensical fun to fully enjoy this story, especially given the caricatures and the mayhem that is Wonderland. I can see where some adult readers may revisit this one for nostalgic childhood reasons, but I think I probably appreciate the story more as a adult reader, than I would have reading it as a young girl. Overall, very happy to have finally read this children's classic.
    • 4/5
      I plan to read Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy and thought it might be interesting to reread the book, this time in French. >My first observation was that the translator did a good job and most of the book was translated well - at least to the limits of my memory. Then I did notice some shortcomings, for instance the wordplay in the mouse poem relating the mouse's tail to the tale being told just didn't work in French. However, the translator did include good footnotes. Here, he explained differences in the French and English version. He also added some historical notes that I found added value to the story. This included some symbology that I was completely unaware of. Some of the jokes and puns were, if my memory serves, and perhaps were replaced with new or similar ones taking advantage of the language differences.Overall, it is a quick read, delightful and imaginative and well worth some time spent.
    • 5/5
      Many of the reviews on this site do not relate to the Salvador Dali illustrated book, but rather to another illustrator. Very Confusing.I love Alice's imaginative adventures and her increasing confidence as she accepts her changing size and bizarre circumstances.Yet, just as I did not enjoy the treatment of animals in a cruel way - the flamingoes, hedgehogs, guinea pigs - when I first read the book as a child and, although I was happy with the final resolution of the Queen and her deck of cards, the constant "Off with their heads!" was and is still annoying.Dali's paintings remain dramatic and an eternal evocative mystery. So good that this book has come to all of us!
    • 4/5
      I don't feel like the modern illustration fits with the classic work for some reason. Otherwise the images are beautifully done.
    • 5/5
      Great Illustration
    • 3/5
      A good way to introduce a child to the idea that words and sentences can have multiple meaning depending upon the context. A sort of point-of-view pontification.
    • 2/5
      The problem is this particular edition (Bookbyte digital), which is not complete, and does not include the introductory poems.
    • 2/5
      Ugh, I hate nonsense books. I get that this is for kids and the whole premise is fun nonsense. When Alice falls asleep she goes down into a rabbit hole and enters Wonderland, a place where everything is fun and nonsense. There is no point to anything and everyone is weird and can you tell how much I dislike this book. There is no plot, just a dumb kid named Alice, wandering around Wonderland talking to animals and packs of cards, playing croquet with flamingos and the like. Totally bonkers.
    • 4/5
      Okay, so we all know this story, most of us know it very well. It's an absurd children's book, and as I listened, I kept thinking about how much my preschool aged granddaughters would love the overall silliness of this classic.

      I listened to the new Audible production performed by Scarlett Johannson. I was very impressed with her ability to change voices, which was so extreme, I wondered how much of it was done in post-production. If it is all her, with no electronic modification, I'm very impressed. Movie directors should be able to utilize her voice skills for so many characters.

      At any rate, the rating is primarily from the performance. Surprisingly, I am not a fan of the story at all (I'm not a fan of absurdist literature - it's like bizarro books today: completely senseless). Oh well, to each his own.

      I'd recommend this for people who enjoy classic children's literature and for those who enjoy hearing a book skillfully read.
    • 4/5
      It's hard to review 2 books at once. I loved the first book. But I was not impressed with the second. Like many, I've been spoiled by movies so I was very disappointed to find out the Jabberwocky was just a poem. I was also surprised at how young Alice truly is in the books. All-in-all was an interesting read.